found: Shabeele, R. M. Ma dhabba jacayl ... 1975 (subj.)p. 5 (Cilmi Boodhari)
found: Abdirachid Doāni ʻElmi Bodheri, 2017:title page (ʻElmi Bodheri) page 27 (ʻElmi Ismael Liban dit ʻElmi Bodheri loves Hodan ʻAbdille Walanwal in Berbera in the period 1931-1941) page 92 (b. 1908, d. 1941)
found: Shabeele, R. M. Ma dhabba jacayl ... 1975:page 5 (Cilmi Boodhari)
found: Somali Wikipedia, October 3, 2014(Cilmi Boodhari (poet); lived in Hargeysa and Berbera)
found: Gabobe, Jamal. Elmi Bodari and the construction of the modern Somali subject in a colonial and Sufi context, 2014:title page (Elmi Bodari) abstract (Elmi Bodari was the first Somali poet to compose poems exclusively about the theme of love) pages 1-2 (Elmi Bodari (1908-1941) is a Somali poet who grew up in the rural border area between what was then known as the British Protectorate of Somaliland and Ethiopia. The word Bodari is his nickname and is a Somali mispronunciation of the English word border. The nickname was given to him in order to highlight the fact that he was born and lived his early years at Somaliland's border with Ethiopia. His full name is Elmi Ismail Liban. In the Latin based Somali script, his name is written as Cilmi Ismaaciil Liibaan. It is also variously spelled as ʹIlmi Bowndheri and Elmi Bonderii. I chose to write his first name as Elmi because it is the version used by the Canadian writer Margaret Laurence, the first person who wrote about him, and I transcribed his last name as Bodari because it is both simpler to write it this way and closer to how Somalis say his name. In 1930, he left the countryside and moved to the city of Hargeisa in Somaliland. He stayed there for a year. Then he moved again, this time to the coastal city of Berbera. He got a job in a restaurant in Berbera and after that he worked in a bakery. The story goes that one day while he was working in the bakery, a girl came to buy bread and once he saw her he immediately fell in love with her. The girl's name was Hodan Abdillahi Walanwal or Hodan Abdi for short. Because of that love, he became a celebrity and a legend)
found: Somaliland times, February 21, 2006, viewed October 3, 2014:Forbidden love (Cilmi Bodheri is the great modern popular Somali poet of love and a cultural phenomenon)
found: Somaliland times, August 21-27, 2010, viewed online October 3, 2014:The central theme of Elmi Bodheri's poems (Elmi Ismail Liban (Bodheri) is one of the most influential, prominent and composer figures in Somali literature. Bodheri, fell in love with Hodan Cabdulle around 1931 while working in a Bakery in Berbera City)
found: Culture and customs of Somalia, 2001:page 79 (Elmi Boodhari, a poet) page 80 (died in 1941; the son of Hodan, the lady whose love made him suffer, collected his poems and published them as Ma dhabaa jacayl waa loo dhintaa?)
found: Samatar, Said S. Oral poetry and Somali nationalism, c1982:page 68 (ʹIlmi Booḍari, poet) page 69 (ʹIlmi Booḍari's predicament stemmed from his inability to marry the girl he loved, Hodon ʹAbdillaahi)
found: OCLC, October 3, 2014(access point: Cilmi Boodhari; usage: Cilmi Boodhari; Cilmi Bowndheri)
found: Wikipedia, May 18, 2018:Elmi Boodhari (Elmi Boodhari (Somali: cilmi ismaaciil liibaan, Elmi Ismail Libaa, Arabic: علمي اسماعيل ليبان) (1908-1940) was a Somali poet. He was born near the border between Ethiopia and former British Somaliland in 1908; died Berbera, Somaliland; known in the Somali world for his love poems that he wrote to a girl named Hodan that he fell in love and met in Berbera)
